The Osceola times., 1887-08-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


BRITisH detectives searched the baggag
of Congressman Collins and accompany
ing friends at Dublin ON the 2sth. Tn
Americans were suspected" Of beini
dynamiters.
RUSSIA is massing troops along the Al
CHAN frontier, and the opinion obtains tina
she intends TO swoop down on Herat an'
Cabul when an opportune moment arrives
JOHN Ii. GLEASON, of West Troy, n. Y.
bas been debarred from practice before thu
Interior Department.
REv. JOSEPH PARKER, OF the London City
Temple, being about to leave for America
where he WIN deliver 3 eulogy Of the late
Henry Ward Beecher, made farewell ad
dress to his congregation on the 2sth.
The Secretary Of State has received Z
dispatch from Consul-General Phelan al
Halifax. N. s., saying that he is investi
eating the recent seizures Of American
vessels in Canadian waters, and that be
las Instructed the Consul at Charlotte
tcwn, Prince Edwards Island, TO take
measurement of the sea at that point,
where the seizures were made, to establish
the exact distance from shore.
MORE than 1870 members of the British
Parliament, including eight ministers,
have signed n memorial addressed TO Pres.
ident Cleveland and the United States
Congress in favor Of the settlement Of In
ternational disputes by arbitration.
JUDcE A. T.. COLE Of the Rowan (Ky.)
Circuit Court made formal application, on
the 2sth, for troops TO protect his court,
which convenes ON August 2. Judge Cole
and others feel certain their will he blood.
shed unless troops are at hand. Friends Of
Craig Tolliver are already collecting In the
neighborhood.
GOVERNOR KNOTT OF Kentucky on the
2sth ordered Adjutapt- General Castleman
10 get in readiness fifty soldiers TO go 10
Bell County 20 preserve order. The sheriff
OF that county was killed ON the 25th, and
war has been threatening since.
DR.. Won ScnLoEzER, Prussian Minister
TO the Vatican, has presented TO the Pope
an eSquisitely wrought miter, adorned
with rubies, diamonds, sapphires and
emeralds, and accompanied by an auto.
graph letter from the Emperor of Germany,
rendering the beieweled offering as his
Jubilee gift to the Holy Father
THE Ohio state Republican convention
nominated the following ticket on the 2sth
Governor, j. b. Foraker, renominated
Lieutenant-Governor,W W C. Lyon; Supreme
Judges, long term, VIM. 7. Spear; short
term, +. j. Dickman; Auditor, f. w. Poe;
Attorney-General, ID. h. Watson; Member
Of Board of Public Works,C. A. Flicklnger;
Treasurer, John c. Brown.
GENERAL BouLANGRR's challenge fer a
duel has been sent TO NJ. Ferry.
JOHN BRIGHT exhprts the electors of
Bridgeton to vote against George Otto
Trevelyan for Parliament.
SECRETARY WHITNEY announces that q
contract has been entered into with the
Hotchkiss Ordnance Company which in.
sures the establishment Of a branch of that
concern In this country.
The Shah Of Persia will start In April
next upon six months tour Of the indus.
trial centers of Europe.
JUDGE DENIS QUINN, Of the Supreme
Court Of New York City, died at Saratoga
on the 29th, aged fifty-seven years.
PRINCE LOUIS Of Battenberg has been
appointed commander of the British iron.
clad Dreadnaught, over tue heads Of scores
Of seniors. 1t is expected that the Radl.
Gals viii criticise the appointment in Par
lament.
REVEREND MOTHER SUPERIOR NJ b.
LYNCH died at the Ursuline convent in
Columbia, b. c., on the night of the 2sth.
The deceased was the first mother superior
OF ursuline nuns in the South, having be
come nun in Cincinnati In ls41.
Tue President has come 10 the conclu.
sion that he can as easily answer a writ
ten invitation TO visit city as he can re
spond to long speeches of visiting delega
tions conveying such invitations, and h,
aas begged the Memphis citizens, who
ehreatened descent on the White House
cot to make IL.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has sent ten dol
lars to the East Aurora IN. W Fair As
scciation TO be awarded as premium a
the fair this fall for the best set of triplets
1T is reported that Bishop Loughlin ot
brooklyn has been ordered to Rome to ex
plain why he has disobeyed papal man
date.
WYILR, the Scotch ex-sheep herder, an,
now the champion checker player of tn
world, has just finished an Australian
tour in which he played 231 games, wol
22S, drew ID and lost but one--to Patter
son, the champion Of Victoria.
Mr.. BLAINE is said TO be enjoying him
self SO well in Scotland that his visit vii
In all probability be prolonged.
Mr.. Ed. LOCKE, city editor Of the Pitts
burgh Pa.) Chroniole- Telegraph, wa
overcome by the heat on the morning O
the Both, while at work at his desk, an,
was reported in critical condition.
CHARLEs +. REED, one Of the lawyer
who defended Guiteau, attempted suicid
on the SOth by jumping from North rive
IN. W ferryboat. He was rescued bv tn
harbor police. He is q financial and menta
wreck.
SECRETARY LAMAR has sent an agent o
the Interior Department 20 the "publi
land strip" lying between Kansas an,
Texas to notify owners of Illegal fences d
remove them at once.
JosEPH W. DRExEL has presented tn
surviving Union soldiers Of the late civi
war, in perpetuity, the cottage at Mt Nc
Gregor, n. Y, where General Grant died
The Gladstonians won another sigma
victory in the parliamentary election il
Worcestershire on the 3Oth.
DR.. MCKENZIE reports that Crown
Prince Frederick William is so much i'm
proved nov that he expects very soon I,
discontinue the treatment of the throa
altogether.
OSCAR ;. SAWYER, the weil-known New
York newspaper correspondent, died il
Chambers Street hospital or the evenin.
of the 3lst from sun stroke.
PRINoE Know LUAyo DEvAwoUsGl
VARorRAKAw, half brother of the King o
Siam, and suite arrived in New York b,
the umbria on the 3lst. The Prince, VIII
has been ''doing" the Queens jubilee, 4
about thirty-one years old, and speaks En-
glish readily. He left Siam in May, an,
will return via San Francisco, after visit
ing the principal points in the Unite'
States.
CAPTAIN GILBERT KNAPP, the founder o
Racine, Wis, died OF old age st that cit,